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“Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.”

Has Beens Light Past Sea Sky Wind Comfort Forgiving South Blow Good Day Miami

Author:Iggy Pop

“My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.”

People Ifs Thinking Has Beens Art Done Past Humanity Sound Goal Can Do Greater Fine Compare Mentality Fine Arts Oxford Oxford University Comparing Yourself

Author:Kanye West

“Europe is as fearful of Islam today as she has been in the past. She now knows that the strength of Islam (which in the past expressed that of the Arabs) has been reborn and has appeared in a new form: Arab nationalism.”

Knows Has Beens Today Past Form Europe Islam Nationalism Fearful Reborn

Author:Michel Aflaq

“in the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal has been redefined as 'having it all.”

Has Beens Seems Today Past Asks Goal Too Much Earning Earning A Living

Book:Thriving In 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work

Source: Thriving In 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work

“Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives.”

Believe Has Beens Today Past Who You Are Buddhist Our Past Your Past Cosmology Past Life

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men.”

“With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.”

Firsts Looks Long Has Beens Reality Past Speak Language Wish Photography First Time Impression Past Experiences

Author:Ernst Haas

“We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war”

Has Beens War Hard School Past Generations Danger

Author:Alexander the Great

“There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.”

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Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.”

Kind Persons Long Has Beens Stills Hard Play Together Past Night Song Interest Band Long Time Glory Trade Decades Bored Hats My Past Hats Off

Author:Paul Weller

“Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.”

Feels Mean Has Beens Art Stills Past Alive Modern Duty Art Is Function Communicate Liberated

Author:Antony Gormley

“Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.”

Years Has Beens Real Past Economic Debt Outstanding

Author:Meredith Whitney

“Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?”

Years Has Beens Home Able Past Realizing Travel Sixty Foreigners Tourists

Book:2000 new laughs for speakers: the ad-libber's handbook

Source: 2000 new laughs for speakers: the ad-libber's handbook

“Surveying the way viruses have been discovered in the past, I came to the conclusion that I could use my technology that I developed as a graduate student - DNA microarray technology - to create a chip that would simultaneously screen for all viruses ever discovered, and furthermore have the built-in capability of discovering new viruses.”

Way Has Beens Use Past Technology Students Built Screens Conclusion Capability Graduates Discovering Dna Chips Viruses Graduate Students

Author:Joseph DeRisi

“The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.”

Has Beens Past Choices Challenges Information News Newspapers Diversion

Author:Robert G. Picard

“Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.”

“Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?”

World Years Has Beens States Home Past Suffering Millions Identity Injustice Around The World Camps Palestinian Refugee Exile Refugee Camps Palestinian Refugees

Author:Ismail Haniyeh

“Does anyone believe for one moment that the progress we have made would have been possible under bureaucratic control of any government. This country was founded upon the principle of the regulation of private effort, of making rules for the game, and under that system alone can we look for the same success in the future which has been ours in the past. Our position today is the direct result of the free play among our people of private competitive effort.”

People Believe Looks Doe Has Beens Made Country Play Moments Government Today Past Games Results Effort Principles Progress Position Direct Competition Regulation Free Play

Author:Roger Babson

“For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how you stand it," they often say to the native New Yorker who has been sitting up past his bedtime for a week in an attempt to tire his guest out. "It's all right for a week or so, but give me the little old home town when it comes to living." And, under his breath, the New Yorker endorses the transfer and wonders himself how he stands it.”

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